Category Archives: Handwork

If a person is inclined toward making lovely skeins with their homespun, this is the way to go… I personally have used a niddy noddy for the short length of time that I have been spinning, but have seen so many others using the yarn swifts that I have thought I might like to use one. No […]

This has been a real adventure here at Fabric Follies. Never in my 50+ years did I ever dream that a little fun on a daily basis would bring over 1000 hits a day and some lovely email friends! This year began early on with surgery and later on with placement of a heart […]

I have yet to find anyone I would trust enough to wrap me up completely in duct tape! grin But I will keep looking and at some point will have my own double that I can fit my patterns to without the pin pricks of trying to fit it on myself. Crazy Chole Black of […]

This is my first try at crocheting socks… Wow! I wish I had tried this many years ago. They are not only quick and easy, they are so much fun to do! I studied several free patterns online and after a while realized that it was soooo simple… just crochet in rounds to the […]

In my wandering through the world of crafts yesterday morning, I came across this cute little bird on Cameoroze.com with a link leading back to a German site that showed the instructions for making it. Well… before breakfast I had cut a bit of felt and was handsewing in front of my pc… DH […]

As I have wandered through the pages showing all the ancient needlework and crafting, blackwork embroidery is almost always present in one place or another. Elizabethan Blackwork has wonderful (and I do mean wonderful) patterns on several pages of her site. Here is another site with many fill in patterns for sleeves, collars, scarves…whatever you would like […]

A few weeks ago I came across this method of making cloth somewhere in my travels across the web. I can’t honestly say which site I came across first because I immediately clicked on every link I could find. It seems that this was the method for making shoe linings or socks that was preferred by […]